March 15, 2026

Robert Altman - A Prairie Home Companion

Robert Altman - A Prairie Home Companion

Meryl & Kidman Month continues this week with an unedited episode! What happens when Jeff and Amber both think the other person is hosting and has all the answers? Hit play to hear the confusion, panic, and hilarious debate as Amber champions...

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Season 7
Meryl & Kidman Month continues this week with an unedited episode!

What happens when Jeff and Amber both think the other person is hosting and has all the answers? Hit play to hear the confusion, panic, and hilarious debate as Amber champions another Robert Altman film; his 2006 musical comedy A Prairie Home Companion!

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Are you talking about?

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Well, no, I was just saying I just want to

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do there's a quick I want to do a quick

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plug for black Key Coffee. And then I'm not this,

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Uh yeah you are no, not at all. Fuck, No,

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I thought you were hosting it. I'm not. I mean,

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this isn't like like I'm not playing like I really legitimate.

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I legitimately thought you were. Are you not?

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I mean I didn't have that.

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I was so, okay, this is gonna be interesting. This

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is I don't know, gonna be just like a live

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save show. It's gonna be like the movie. I guess

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we're without a net. Okay, Well we will figure it out.

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All right, we're going We're going for it. We're doing it.

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Are you kidding me? Oh my god?

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I have to have this so I can because it

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comes out on Monday.

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I'm so sorry.

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Well are you you can talk about the movie though?

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Well you're yeah, Okay, we'll be the radio show.

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We'll be fine, right, all right.

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I'm so sorry we did not. Well, it's it's how communicate. No,

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like I if you told me, I didn't. It didn't

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go like I knew.

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I was doing the Meryl Streep top ten because you

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guys don't know each other's list. But I, in my ignorance.

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Sorry, I'm like, I'm gonna have a heart attack. I'm

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so sorry.

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We're fine, you know.

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I just like I feel like you're saying this and

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you're gonna like we're gonna be done, and you're gonna

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walk out of the room and go motherfucker now, and

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you're totally lying to me right now because I'm having

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a nervous breakdown.

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Don't well, you're fine, We're fine. Let's let's do this now. Now.

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I'm even more excited now because that was like, okay,

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I don't know what the fuck's about to happen. So well,

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because I I told like I usually I usually do

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the whole episode in my head, like before we ever record,

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I hear the whole thing.

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I type out everything I'm going to say, like a

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whole this six pages long.

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This is going to be interesting. Okay, hey let me

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oh all right, but we're doing all right, We're ready,

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let's do it, like, ah, this is gonna be cool.

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All right, put all this shit on YouTube.

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This might be YouTube goal, I don't know. Uh okay, uh.

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remind you with enough coffee, anything is possible. And now

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we're gonna talk about a film by Robert Altman, his

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two thousand and six musical comedy A Prairie Home Companion.

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It is two thousand and six, right, yes, okay, I

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got a couple of things. All right, this is gonna

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be fuck, this is gonna be a good one. Hello everybody,

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I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm Lewis, and this is a film

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by podcast. Before we get going, Uh, just a quick

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shout out, a couple shoutouts amber. First off, the YouTube

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channel is growing more and more by the day. I

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want to say hey to all of our new subscribers

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and remind everybody we're now doing TV. We are doing

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Garrett Gibson and I have our newest series previously on

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where we are recapping and discussing some of our favorite

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current TV shows, some of you your favorite current TV

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shows right now you can check us out. We're talking

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about DTF, Saint Louis and monarch Legacy of Monsters. But

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I know we've got young Sherlock and Scarpetta on the dockets,

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so we'll be taught, we'll be We'll be getting to

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them soon as well. In addition to uh to the

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YouTube stuff, gotta say hey to our ever growing Patreon family, Amber.

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These guys and gals are absolutely awesome.

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Yes, welcome everyone.

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Yeah, and Patreon subscribers. And I guess, I guess if

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people are listening to this right now and they sneak in,

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you know, because I don't have to listen from me,

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but to our Patreon subscribers. And I'm talking about our

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our paying subscribers. Amber. Yes, if you're one of them,

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you can expect a care package in the mail within

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the next few weeks. There's a bunch of them, so

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I gotta, you know, give me, give me some time here.

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I gotta make a multiple trips to you know, the mailbox.

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But we got something fun heading your way. So that's

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a thank you, you know, for your your patronage as

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it were. If you have not signed up or checked

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anywhere else amber and uh, you know they're not they're

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not streaming on Spotify or YouTube or Apple, They're they're

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only on Patreon.

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Well in the commercial free sneak peek is is particularly delightful.

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I gotta tell you. I I thought let's do something

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extra for our Patreon family, and that that went over

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quite well. Uh ad free and you know typically it's

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early too. You get it, you get it a day,

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you get it a day early. Let's talk about Robert Altman.

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This is your guy. Yes, we've been here before.

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I listened to that episode again today. Oh poor Jeff.

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That was was that?

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Uh?

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That was that our buddy Def Dave who who had

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recommended that. I'm trying to remember.

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I can't remember where.

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It's like, why aren't we talking about the player? I

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think it was.

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But I was like super excited and you were like.

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You were and I was like, well I had okay,

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So I had a I had a complicated history with

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Robert Altman because I hadn't seen the player, and obviously

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you could listen to that episode. I'm not I'm not

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a big I wasn't very warm on it. You know,

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I didn't care a great deal for it. Not to

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say that there wasn't some good stuff happened in that

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film and some great performances, but really at that point,

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my I think my my relationship with Robert Altman was Popeye.

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Mm hmm, which a lot of people.

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Yeah, but I'm just not not a big Robert Oltman guy.

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And uh, you know, I saw you when I when

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I told everybody, hey, we're doing movies specifically this season

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from the years two thousand and one and two thousand

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and six so that we can we can celebrate the anniversaries.

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I saw your eyes light up a little bit. And

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then when I told you, guys, hey, in March we're

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doing Meryll and Kidman month. It's see me movies that

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are just Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, your eyes got

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a little bit wider because you're like, oh, hey, there's

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a there's a Meryl Street movie that came out one

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of those years. Great, let's talk about it. And I just,

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you know, a prairie home Companion heard it, never heard

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of it? Who directed it? Okay, Robert Altman? So and

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here we are.

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Yeah, well in Gosford Park came out in two thousand

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and one.

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So well, it's a it's a pretty full schedule. So

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don't don't hold your breath. We'll see, we'll.

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See you can't. You can work it in. More on

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that later, But my campaign has just begun.

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Your campaign needs a shutdown.

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I know.

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Listen, we've talked about all of them before. But two

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things I wanted to mention about this director. I know

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that this was his final film, right yeah, PRAI Home Companion,

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his final his final film. I believe he was eighty

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years old when he passed away. Now another thing that

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I found found interesting, I'd say, well not interesting. You know,

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it bothered me that the studio put this on him,

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but I like how it worked out. Uh, they would

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not ensure him to work on the film unless he

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chose a director, a fellow director who would be ready

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to go as like a stand in. And you know,

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and he kind of jokingly was telling everyone on set like, hey,

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if I kicked the bucket, his words, if I kicked

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the bucket, you know, here's your guy and that guy

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PT Anderson, I mean, who I'm.

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Not the hugest fan of I know you love him,

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but I'm kind.

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Of I love him. I know you're not, but you know,

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and I was when I saw that. I was like

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when I when I was reading that, I was like, wow,

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I wonder how I wonder I ever felt felt about

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that because I know you're not you're not big on him.

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But I mostly felt it was bonkers insulting, except when

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you put it in the perspective of Robert Alman. Wasn't

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just eighty years old. He was a sick person, so

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yes he was. He was going through chemo and it

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was a whole situation. So it wasn't just you know, like,

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well you're ancient, so you ask somebody there you know,

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I can die, you know, it was he he was

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very ill, and I do. I mean, it's a lot

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of money, so you know, but I like that at least.

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Paul Thomas Anderson was a huge Altman fan, and kind

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of he wasn't looking at it like he was anything special.

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He was looking at it like I get to sit

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and watch this person I admire, you know, do what

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he does so well.

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So this is this is an all tour. That's the

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word I'm gonna use to talk about pt Anderson. This

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is an all tour. Who is sitting at the side

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of Robert Altman, like, you know, it's like it'd be

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like me going to fantasy baseball camp, you know, with

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the Reds. He's with one of his favorite all time

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directors getting to help, right. Yes, he's even shooting some

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second unit stuff for Altman, So I I think that's

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a pretty cool thing, and you know, probably nice for

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him because uh, I know, uh, Maya Rudolph is in

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the film happens to be his wife, So.

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I didn't know that. Yeah, going to work with your

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your you know, and was really pregnant during this film.

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Really pregnant. Yeah, yeah, really, but she's.

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Pregnant in movies a lot. It's hard to know.

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Yeah, very funny, very funny actress. Oh yeah, all right,

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five words synopsis, let's do let's let's describe this movie

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using five words or less. I'm I'm not knocking this

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out of the park. I'm not getting a well, this

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is a prayer Home companion, so I'm not I'm not

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getting a standing ovation because it's it's rather bland, but

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I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you mine. Okay,

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curtain call for radio show.

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Mine's almost the same.

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Okay, what do you got.

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Radio variety shows? Final Broadcast. I felt like it was

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important to have the variety part.

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You know what, I think you win listeners, you can,

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you can hit us up on on social media, tell us.

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If you're not, I'm voting for ambers. So if you're not.

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If you're not, I don't know what's wrong with you.

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But I think that I think you got the variety.

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The word of variety is important.

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Yeah, I kind of that. I didn't have that one.

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To describe what it is that you're watching because it's

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almost indescribable.

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Yeah, well, I'm gonna your word indescribable. All right. I'm glad,

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I'm gonna be I'm gonna I'm gonna be I'm gonna

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be fair, I'm gonna be respectful, all right. And I

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want to start by saying, because there's there's some good

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stuff I want to talk.

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Did you hate every goddamn frame of it?

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I mean I did not hate every frame of it, Okay,

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thank god, But this was one of those where I'm like,

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oh my God, how much longer. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,

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but but there's some good stuff happening, and I specifically

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want to talk about some some good stuff. But and

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let's start with this. I was, I was rather pleaded.

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I went in this. I went into this cold. I

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didn't watch. I didn'tve watch.

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Did you listen to an episode of the radio show?

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No, I didn't. I just pressed for time. I didn't.

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I wasn't able to. But let me let me say that, Okay,

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let me can I get this out of the way

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first before I give my opinions about this movie and

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and give people the wrong idea, I can tell you this.

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You know, I'm a big Fraser fan. One of my

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all time favorite episodes is Ham Radio, where Fraser does

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the the Nightmare in uh for you know, like so

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I I love, I love. That's my all time Fraser episode.

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Not not my all time favorite, it's my second all

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time favorite. That's what I'll say. Can't can't forget ski Lodge. However,

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personal anecdote, A little fun story to let you know, like,

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I think radio has its place. I think it's it's

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an amazing medium. A long time ago, you know, early twenties,

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I'm living with like three other guys, which meant there

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was like six or seven of us in the house

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at all times because all the girlfriends basically lived there

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were It's like the real world, Cincinnati more or less.

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And I don't know what prompted me to do this,

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but Orson Wells, the War of the worlds something, I

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just you know, we all know the story famous hoax.

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You know the radio play that he puts on. Everyone

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lost their goddamn mindes uh when they did it because

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they thought it was real. They thought aliens were actually

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attacking right.

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Which it wasn't a hoax, Like he wasn't trying to

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put one over on people. They said, up, it was

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radio theater.

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But yeah, if you weren't listening.

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But it's the beginning and you came in the middle

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of a news report saying that the marches have landed.

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Like, so I get this, and I have sided. I

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had the I had the room in the basement, which

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was like the fun you know, we had a pull

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table and I was like, ah, this is where you know,

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this is where I live. And uh So I had

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the ambiance set, I had candles, I had the CD.

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I was gonna play it on an actual on an

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actual stereo. You know, back then we had stereos. You

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didn't just use your phone for everything. And to my surprise,

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my roommates were like, this sounds kind of cool, so

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they followed. They come down the steps with me. The

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girls are like, uh, you know, we'll hang out for

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a minute. I don't expect anyone to hang out longer

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than five minutes once they realize it's this old timey

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radio show. And I tell you, like ten minutes into it,

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I'm looking around at my friends and it's just captivated faces.

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They're eating it up. And it was such a wonderful

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night listening to this then, because you know, it's like

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you're it's like real life because they're cutting for commercial

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breaks and they're doing this stuff and just a fun time.

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So I tell you that story just so I can

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get get it out in the air right now. Love

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love the format. Okay.

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Well, and we did Haunted Honeymoon and that was han

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yeah you and I for Yeah. I love six like

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I love that.

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So listeners go back check out what it was that

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Patreon or was that yeah that was Patreon? Wasn't it

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was Paton? Yeah? Okay, well, listeners, join Patreon, or if

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you're already on Patreon, check out the Hanted Honeymoon episode.

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That was a lot of fun. Geene Wilder, Gilda Radner,

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Don Delouiz. I might I might watch that tonight now

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that you've put it back on my radar. All right, Uh,

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let's talk about what I what I really enjoyed though,

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right off the right off the bat, the I think

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I think hearing the tuning of the radio dial with

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the opening title credits, it's a it's a real nice

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touch because it kind of puts you, It gives you,

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It sets the vibe, right it It lets you know,

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like because you're you're tuned in between like this commercial

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versus that show versus that talk show. You know.

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Well, And I thought of it, as you know, we

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first heard in my family Prairie Home Companion on a

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recommendation from my uncle. Driving to Michigan every year. It's

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a minimum eight hour drive, so you know, you're running

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through the dihal trying to find a radio station that'll

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come in. And interestingly, that section that's not real radio,

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that's Tim Russell and Sue Scott and Tom Keith okay

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doing all those bits all right.

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I had no idea. I just thought radio, no background garble,

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all right.

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Nope, that's the the theater, you know, members from the

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Prairie Home Companion show.

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Okay, so I told you I didn't watch the trail.

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I went in cold. I don't. I don't think I

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was expecting how the film story is told watching it. Okay.

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So I never really connected to a specific character because

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it's shot in this like pseudo documentary format, which I

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think works for the film, I really do, but can

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but still can be it's frustrating at times because it's

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almost like you're your POV is a like a silent

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camera operator who's just moving around backstage, kind of lurking,

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picking up pieces of conversations here and there, you know,

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never but never staying, never, never looming too much.

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Right, So I kind of felt like at times, like

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when I was a kid and we had a family reunion. Yeah,

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and you're a kid, so you're not with the adults

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because they're talking boring adult conversation, but you're running in

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and out of the house and you know, getting another

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coke when nobody's looking, and you know, and so you

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are floating amongst all of these different reminiscences and songs

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and conversations and.

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It okay, So I guess the one thing I'm wondering,

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how do you have such an immense plethora of Oscar

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winning an Oscar nominated talent jammed into this movie? And

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it it just I don't know. I don't want to.

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I don't want to. I don't be mean, I don't

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want I don't want to say it's bad, but it's

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just I just don't think this is a good film. Member. Well,

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there you do, and now we're gonna have a good

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talk about.

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There was a critic that called it like absolute garbage,

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like he just absolutely destroyed the movie and just thought

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it was horrible.

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Now, being fair, well you bring up critics. So I

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got something here for you, all right, because listen, I

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did some homework before watching it because I wanted to

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kind of, you know, just what's what's up? Very very

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mixed reviews from the critics when it's come out, right now,

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I'm it up just because I want to be fair.

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Roger Ebert four stars puts it on his Great Movies list.

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That's that's that's a serious accolade. But I got a

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quote from another another critic here and listen. Critics. Critics

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are critics. I mean you and I are critics. Just

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because we have an opinion doesn't mean you have to

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listen to this one.

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It's like you either get it or you don't. You know.

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So, So Michael Medved, who is also a radio host,

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he gives the film one and a half stars, and

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he says, quote, the entertainment value stands somewhere between thin

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and non existent, and it may be the worst movie

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ever made that pooled the talents of four count them

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four Oscar winners. So I just want to be fair.

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I gave you, I gave you Ebert, I gave you,

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I gave you this guy because I was like, am

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I am I not understanding what I'm watching here. It's

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it's a divided audience. Like you said, it's you you

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either love this or you hate it?

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Right, Well, no, you either get it or you don't.

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Okay, you get it or you don't. I don't get it.

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And I think a big key to if you get

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it is if you heard the radio show and if

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you loved the radio show, because so much of it

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is that show, and you know, understanding that everyone that

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does the show like they're featured, so they're not really

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a cohesive group. It's you've got Dusty and Lufty, and

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you've got Rhonda and Yelanda, and you've got these pairings

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that dip in and out.

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Yeah, Okay, well, I mean and I pick up I

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picked up on that. I don't think it's the format

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so much as it is maybe the genre because this

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this type of program uh. And I'm talking about the

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the genre itself, like the type of music and the

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type of comedy. It reminded me of being a little

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kid at Mammal's and the Lawrence Welk shows on, and

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I'm just you're trapped, like you can't this is what's

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on TV, and you're stuck. Mammal says, hey, you get

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what you get, and you don't know a fit. It's like,

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I don't want to watch this, please. But it's like

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it's like, you know, the town in Footloose. I feel

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like all the parents in Footloose, this is they're they're

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they're listening to a Prairie Home Companion. There, they're watching

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the show. They're in the audience. It's there. That's that's

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It's like a Midwestern bluegrassy Yeah.

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Parentson Footloots were assholes, like it don't compare it to them.

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Well, they weren't all assholes. It's just I'm just okay.

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This is like, this is that aesthetic. It is very Midwestern.

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If this movie was a restaurant, it'd be the Cracker Barrel.

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Yeah. Fair, fair, But like I don't know, but we

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live here, like like you should get these jokes.

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Like I just yeah, Okay, I'll tell you what. Let's

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let's take a let's take a quick break, uh, as

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they say in a prayer home companion. Well we'll pause

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for station identification and then we'll come back. Well, we'll

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talk about some of the casts. Okay, welcome back, Amber

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Lewis and I.

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Getting rid of throw it down.

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See I was gonna say debating, you're getting Let's let's

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talk about the cast a little bit obviously, Okay. Can

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I just run down this list because it's a good list.

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It's a oh hold on, it's we don't have time

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to talk about everybody, but we gotta, we gotta at

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least mention. We gotta give him, we got we gotta

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shout him out. So you've got Gary. Okay, I'll tell

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you what. Let's let's do something. We never do this. Okay,

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but you know this movie, you love this movie, you

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grew up on the on the radio show. Can you

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give me like a quid pro quo. I'm gonna say

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that the the the actor and the character, and you

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just give me like your five second shoot from the

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hip the voice of Reason herself. Can you do that?

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Like what describing who they are in the movie?

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No, no, no, no not. I don't want your description. I

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just just the actor. I want you to yeah, you know,

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I gauge their performance.

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Okay, I'm like, what do you want from?

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Right, let's do this?

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All right?

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Garrison Keeler as himself.

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Which I mean he's just Garrison Killer, like that's who

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he is on the radio show. Like that's that's just it.

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Like he's just awesome. He's funny, and he has written

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all of this. He's always written the shows.

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So I found I found him to be a dry character.

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I didn't care.

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Yes, but it's funny.

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I not. I didn't think so. All right, Kevin, all right,

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hold on, I've got like fifteen all right, Kevin Klein

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as Guy Noir.

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He was the one that I didn't really like, Uh.

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What's going on with him in this in this movie, So.

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Prayer him companion the radio show every episode, like one

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episode will be Dusty and Lefty at the Cowboys, and

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then one episode they'll have Guy Noir and he's a

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very popular character. But it's Scarson Keeler doing Guy Noir

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Like it's okay. They do this little like story section

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and it's making fun of in a loving way, like

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those Mickey Splaine kind of stories. And Kevin Klein just,

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I mean he did like fart jokes and he's bumping

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into walls and I just it was kind of.

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Out of place, all right out of place, thank you,

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because I'm gonna jump in and just tell you I

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think Kevin Kleine is in a different movie because for

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half the movie, I'm like, that is he? Is he real?

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Do people see him? Is he? Because even at the

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end he shows up, he's still playing that he's he's

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never an actor, he's playing I don't know what the

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hell's going on with his character. Like you could have

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cut him completely and it wouldn't have changed anything.

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Yeah, and he didn't really at anything.

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Okay, Okay, see we're we're kind of we're kind of

463
00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:52.240
sympatico here Lily Tomlin as Rhnda Johnson, one of the

464
00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:53.119
Johnson sisters.

465
00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.279
Well, you can't separate her from maryl.

466
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:58.480
H Listen, it's Marilyn kimmen Month. I'm not talking about

467
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.799
Mary yet. I'm gonna save No, just just move past Meryl.

468
00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:03.359
We'll get back to her.

469
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.680
Lily Tomlin is so great at just creating a character

470
00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:12.279
and running with it, and like, my favorite scene is

471
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:14.759
one of the ones that she takes the lead in

472
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:16.960
and I think she's hilarious.

473
00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:22.119
A problem with the movie not enough Lily Tomlin should

474
00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:22.519
have had more.

475
00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:25.799
Yes, yeah, I could have stayed with Ronda and Yolanda

476
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:26.559
like the whole time.

477
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:31.599
Okay, Lindsay Lohan as Lola Johnson, she's playing Meryl Streep's daughter.

478
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:36.319
Okay, if you want to know what the relationship was

479
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:39.920
like between Amber Lewis and Nan Lewis at those ages,

480
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:41.440
that is it?

481
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:42.960
Really okay?

482
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:45.279
Her trying to get me to wear something I didn't

483
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:47.119
want to wear, and me rolling my eyes and then

484
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:49.559
I end up doing what she wanted anyway, but I

485
00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:51.440
just had to do it in my own space, And

486
00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:54.960
oh my god, I love her and Meryl together.

487
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.839
I could my understanding is that she wasn't even in

488
00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:01.440
the script, but they that she wanted to be in

489
00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:03.680
the movie. She campaigned to get in, and Robert Altman's

490
00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.400
he jammed her in there. I don't I don't think

491
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:11.319
she really serves a purpose I could take earlier.

492
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:13.519
I think it's to show that you could have had

493
00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:17.920
another generation of the show. Okay, could have continued.

494
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.000
All right, my man, Woody Harrelson is Dusty.

495
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:25.599
Oh my god, he's so good awesome. That was always

496
00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:29.400
Liam's favorite segment when we listened to the radio show.

497
00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:31.359
See they were perfect.

498
00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:35.119
See you are, we are, We are just agreeing left

499
00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:35.359
and right.

500
00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:37.559
Knew that they were going to be your favorite. They

501
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:38.920
come on and tell jokes.

502
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:43.640
I mean, okay, so you can't talk about what Harrelson's

503
00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:47.279
Dusty without John c Riley's Lefty. Yes, they're they're they're

504
00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:52.519
the pair. And it's nice seeing John c Riley have

505
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:58.359
such great comedic chemistry with someone other than will Ferrell. Yes, well,

506
00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:00.920
I think Williams to John cy.

507
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:04.720
Like happy and kind of goofy, and he and Woody

508
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.240
like they just the vibes match, and.

509
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:12.839
The the one character that I felt a connection to

510
00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:16.759
in the movie Tommy Lee Jones as the axe man.

511
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:20.799
I thought you're gonna say, Virginia Madison's Angel of Death.

512
00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.160
We'll we'll get the hair. But Tommy Lee Jones again,

513
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.240
is he there? Just was he? Was? He walking by

514
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:33.920
and they're like, oh, hey, you might be in the

515
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.559
movie because he shows up to do what like we

516
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.720
we know the show's closing, right, it's the last show.

517
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:42.960
He shows up in the limo. He says, hey, don't

518
00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:48.400
this won't take long. He goes in, orders his water, neat,

519
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:53.880
no ice, no lemon. He watches a little bit of it,

520
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.079
has a brief moment where he talks about why it's

521
00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:58.880
necessary to kill the show because you know, the new

522
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:01.559
the new owners want to tear it down, tear down

523
00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:06.799
the theater, make a make a parking lot, and he leaves. Again.

524
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.359
He the only person he really talks to is, aside

525
00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:14.279
from Virginia Madson, is is guy Noir, who at that point,

526
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:15.559
I'm like, I don't know if he's a real person

527
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:15.839
or not.

528
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:18.559
He's just a fish.

529
00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:24.440
Tommy Lee again.

530
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.359
This sounds this sounds so disrespectful and I don't know

531
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.079
any other way to say it to make it sound better.

532
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:32.559
But a lot of people did this movie because Robert

533
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:35.119
Alman was not going to live forever and they wanted

534
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.279
to work with him. They you know, this was like

535
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.119
we moment you know where I think Tommy Lee Jones

536
00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:44.079
was like, this is my one shot and I will

537
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:45.880
be in this movie for five minutes. I don't care.

538
00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:49.480
These people have had how many decades to work with

539
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:51.880
with Robert Altman. It's not like he it's not like

540
00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.200
he's only making one movie every fifteen years.

541
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:58.720
I mean, but I you know, everything has to come together.

542
00:30:58.799 --> 00:30:59.480
I guess.

543
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.759
Okay, well, I'll tell you what comes together. Virginia Matts

544
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:06.799
and that that is a pack, right, you weren't.

545
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.000
You weren't sad about her slinking through in that white

546
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:09.920
trench coat.

547
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:15.920
Like, okay, so she's credited as dangerous woman now, yeah, but.

548
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.480
She's got like two different names, so I don't know

549
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:19.839
why they credit her that way.

550
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:21.759
But is she the Angel of Death or is she

551
00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.839
an angel? Because she's again, what the hell's going on

552
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:28.039
with this character? And why why is she even in

553
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:29.440
the movie. I don't know.

554
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.839
I never know. I never really got that part. I

555
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:39.920
didn't other than her easing their pain of losing this

556
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.680
show and losing one of the members of the cast,

557
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:45.799
and I guess you know, but yeah, I never really

558
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:49.200
got it. You know who I t I was like,

559
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:49.839
I don't care.

560
00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:55.039
I love I love seeing her and hearing her. You

561
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.119
know who who I tend to agree with a lot

562
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:02.400
is uh director Robert Altman, who did not want her

563
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:05.079
character in the movie and like reduced the role to

564
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.720
practically nothing. And I feel bad for her because it

565
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:12.920
turns out she is a huge fan of the radio

566
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:16.200
show and her agent I was reading this in passing

567
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:19.000
her agent just happened to mention it, like, ah, yeah,

568
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.720
everyone in town's doing the blah blah blah, and she's like,

569
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:23.680
oh my god, I need I gotta do it. That's

570
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:24.680
I love that radio.

571
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:27.680
She like took a crowbar to the studio and was

572
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:29.039
like forced her way in.

573
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:34.279
Good for her. Maya Rudolf playing Molly the stage director

574
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.880
fun character. Can we can we agree? Yeah? Just the

575
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:41.599
just the right amount of Maya Rudoff, I think.

576
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:46.279
And having done the stage director's job, I totally like

577
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:47.799
felt her pain of.

578
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:49.839
Like did you can't shut up?

579
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:52.400
You can't get him on stage at the right time?

580
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:57.759
Like did you have did you have a minor panic

581
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.960
attack watching that scene where he's the dude who is

582
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:06.319
Garrison's trying to do the duct tape commercials drops all

583
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:12.759
the Okay, hilarious, all right, all right, I'll move past it.

584
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.640
We'll come back to it. We got we got Mary

585
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.920
Louise Burke as the lunch lady. You know, she's just

586
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:20.640
everyone's yeah, Grandma.

587
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:24.440
I love that conversation of like, what is him slid anyway?

588
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.079
Yeah? Was in it?

589
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:27.319
No one?

590
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.319
All right, we got we got two more people I

591
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:31.920
want to talk about, but I think we're gonna talk

592
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:33.119
about them a little bit more.

593
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:34.039
So.

594
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:35.799
That's why I saved him for the last. First off,

595
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:41.880
l Q Jones playing Chuck akers this when he.

596
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.839
Gets choked up during his song like it kills me.

597
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.480
It makes me sad because this is his final film

598
00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.799
role Amber and he this guy, I mean, this goes

599
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.039
he goes back to the fifties. I remember him in

600
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:01.160
westerns like Hang Him High and The Wild Bunch. He's

601
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.799
a he was a great character actor. Uh, any any project, Nina, Cowboy,

602
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:10.760
you call you call this guy right? Ye had a

603
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:13.360
bit of a resurgence in the nineties with roles in Casino. Well,

604
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.199
he's one of my favorite characters at casino. Uh when

605
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:19.760
he's when he goes to kind of strong arm uh

606
00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.199
de Niro, but he's also in the edge, he's in

607
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:26.719
the Maskazoro And and I quick a quick shout out

608
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:30.440
to his awesome work in eighties television because amber he

609
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:33.960
is showing up in episodes of Charlie's Angels, The Incredible Hulk,

610
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:36.679
the Dukes of Hazzard, the Fall Guy, and the A

611
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.800
Team like this is the this is the Jeff Johnson

612
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:45.320
childhood lineup of awesome TV, and l Q Jones is

613
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:50.639
just everywhere. So I just wish I don't know, I uh,

614
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:53.400
I know, I would listen. This is such an ensemble,

615
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.800
you know, And again we talked about how it's shot

616
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.440
like no one's really I don't think. I don't think

617
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:02.639
this movie has a star. There's no there's no lead.

618
00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:07.039
Garrison like it's his show and he's not even Really Yeah,

619
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:07.920
I just.

620
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:11.719
It would have been nice to have more l Q Jones,

621
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:13.840
but even want more.

622
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:17.760
And you know, he got such a beautiful you know,

623
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:20.360
spotlight for for his scene that.

624
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:25.480
All right, well, okay, okay, I'm not okay with Garrison

625
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.360
just letting him turning it's it's almost like they turned

626
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:30.239
into weekend at Bernie's. Are just leaving him down there

627
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:34.840
in his in his dressing room. Yes, talking, No one wants.

628
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:35.960
To mention it weird.

629
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:40.360
Yeah, and again, uh, hey, Lindsay Lohan just settle down,

630
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:42.559
bumped the breaks with the waterworks, like you don't even

631
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.719
know the guy. And she's like all upset teenager. I

632
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:48.559
guess let's talk.

633
00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:52.159
A teenage girl. You can't really well.

634
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.079
I was not, but uh, speaking of dramatic, let's talk.

635
00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:58.280
Let's talk about the reason we chose this movie. Meryl

636
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:02.840
Streep is playing, saying Yolanda Johnson, it was always her

637
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:08.320
dream to work with Altman, so she accepted this role.

638
00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:11.440
No scripts, I unseen. She all she had to hear

639
00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.599
was Altman, and she's she's in.

640
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:17.239
But I love that, Like you know, she really does

641
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:19.519
go at things at like one hundred and ten percent.

642
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:25.639
Because she ended up doing the fourth of July show

643
00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:28.079
of a Prayer Companion and.

644
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.360
You shared, yeah, you sent that to me together said.

645
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.280
To you, yeah, you know, like she was. It was

646
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:35.960
like she made this movie and she was all in.

647
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:38.400
She really she really got the show.

648
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.920
I think, yeah, it's just and I'm watching this, and

649
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.079
again it's weird because once I've once I'm halfway through,

650
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:48.079
and I'm not truthfully, I'm not digging it, but I'm

651
00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:51.519
also questioning, like why is why are we not anchoring

652
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:54.679
with one person? Like who's why are we not seeing

653
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:56.559
more Meryll? Like this is a Meryl Street movie, but

654
00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:58.360
you know, obviously by the end of it, I'm like,

655
00:36:58.440 --> 00:36:59.840
this is not a Meryl Street movie. This is just

656
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.559
it's a it's a Robert Altman film. This is what

657
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:02.880
he does.

658
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.880
He gets like, but how often can you say, like,

659
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:06.719
it's not a Meryl Street movie, it's a movie that

660
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:07.519
Meryl Streep is in.

661
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.199
I think this is the this is the exception of

662
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.320
the movie the one. Can you think of one Meryl

663
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.719
Street movie where she's not the main character, She's not the.

664
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:23.519
I mean, the only thing that pops into my head

665
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:26.840
is but I haven't seen it since like the eighties.

666
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.639
Is she devil?

667
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.559
Yeah? Yeah?

668
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:33.159
And she's like the other woman?

669
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.639
Yeah? But okay, so even when she's the other woman,

670
00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:39.559
like like death becomes her, which is awesome. You know

671
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:44.840
you got Goldie, right, Yeah, That's what I'm saying, Like

672
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:49.440
this movie is like, oh have you seen that Prairie

673
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:53.320
Home Companion movie. It's who's in it, and depending on

674
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:56.000
who you're talking to, you're gonna get like seventeen different answers,

675
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:59.840
because again, I think people are watching it for like, oh,

676
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.960
you know, I love I love Woody Harrelson. So I'm

677
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.760
watching the cowboy movie that he did. Okay, a cowboy, way, No,

678
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:12.960
it's a Now he's a cowboy in this radio Cowboy. Yeah.

679
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:17.519
But I thought Meryl's great, amazing, amazing singing voice, and uh,

680
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:18.719
what do you think about her accent?

681
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.440
This is like her perfect singing voice. I think because

682
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:24.920
she loves to try to do Broadway and she's not

683
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.599
that person, but this is like where she lives. It's

684
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.840
really really good. I loved her accent. I loved the

685
00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:35.239
little quirk that her accent gets thicker when she's on stage.

686
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:39.039
I thought that was really good. And I just her

687
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:42.480
and Lily Tomlin together, like you, they don't look anything like,

688
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:46.360
but you one hundred percent believe that they are sisters.

689
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:51.880
These hysterical stories that they're telling, like you are completely

690
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:53.400
bought in that this really happened.

691
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.400
Yeah, I'm this is a listen beginning of this month

692
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.320
with you know, Merrily and kimmen Month. I told I've

693
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:04.840
told you so. Look, if you ask me for what

694
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:06.880
I think are good Meryl Street movies, I'm not going

695
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.519
to give you the list that you're gonna come up with,

696
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:11.360
because I think of like Death Becomes Her or The

697
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:14.280
River Wild and then You got You and You and

698
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:18.280
Angela opened my eyes to The Devil Wears Prada, which

699
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:21.159
I think. I think Miranda Priestley is one of the

700
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:27.519
greatest characters cinematic characters ever. I think definitely Meryl's probably

701
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.519
my favorite Meryl Streep performance, but I think it's her best.

702
00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:33.679
So I say all that to say this, I think

703
00:39:33.719 --> 00:39:36.119
she did good here. It's you know, I've seen Meryl

704
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.400
Street movies on like Meryl Streep New Thank You.

705
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:42.679
But sometimes she's exhausting. Good.

706
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:45.559
Yeah, not exhausting here, That's what I'll say.

707
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.440
No, No, like she kind of like she is on

708
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:54.440
only Murders in the Building where the ability for someone

709
00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:58.480
who is like such a huge star in the firmament

710
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.639
to fit in to this cluster is fascinating.

711
00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.639
I think, so two things I want to discuss about

712
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:10.960
the background, and I'm gonna ask you about the radio

713
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:12.960
show because it seems like you know a thing or

714
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.280
two about it. Uh, we're talking about Meryl and her

715
00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:21.920
singing voice. So it's my understanding that actors did not

716
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:27.360
record their songs in studio sessions. Altman insisted they perform

717
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:32.079
them live in front of a real audience at the

718
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:34.400
I guess the theater the main Like, you know, I

719
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:35.519
see it, I see it behind you.

720
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:39.320
That the Fitzgerald, the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota,

721
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:43.639
and that's where they do the Pray Him Companion radio show.

722
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:46.800
Okay, so he's like on the road. Okay, so he's

723
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:50.159
he's he actually has them performed live in front of

724
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:53.840
an audience, and then he's turning around and asking the

725
00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:55.679
audience like which take do you did? You guys like

726
00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:02.800
what you know? He's crowd, Yeah, he's. I mean, you know,

727
00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:05.599
we all we we get these movies that come out

728
00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:07.920
and it's like test audiences. You know, he's he's test.

729
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:11.199
He's got the test audience built in during production. That's

730
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:12.719
pretty pretty cool.

731
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.760
I think, yes, yes, well, and I think that a

732
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:22.519
lot of times singing live, yeah, doesn't necessarily work out,

733
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.800
you know, and we'll we'll say the Hugh Jackman lame

734
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.039
is is a perfect example of that train wreck that

735
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:33.199
can happen. But then conversely, over at document we were

736
00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:35.039
just talking about New York, New York, which is a

737
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:38.400
terrible movie. But there is one song that Liza saying,

738
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:41.400
it's live like she's not lip syncing. She did it

739
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:44.480
in one take, and I mean she just blows your

740
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:47.280
face off, you know. So it can go either way.

741
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:51.920
But I think for a show like this, the imperfections

742
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:55.519
are to be expected and it's real, and it makes

743
00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:59.559
the songs touching and very human, and so I think

744
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:01.199
it works really really well.

745
00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:05.320
I'll tell you what doesn't work really really well is

746
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:13.960
Garrison Keiller's thought process on film titles. So let me

747
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.679
help you out here. So the working the working title,

748
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:19.920
now we gamber this is. This is a long running

749
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:23.840
like radio show that's performed live. It's called a Prairie

750
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:24.519
Home Companion.

751
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:28.039
Yes, it's been running, well, it's over now, but it

752
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.280
ran the beginning in nineteen seventy four.

753
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:33.400
Okay, so it's been a where it's been around a while. Yes,

754
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:37.039
we're making a movie based on it. So here's a thought.

755
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:41.760
Let's not call it what it is. His working title

756
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:49.079
is called the Last Broadcast which isn't bad, but again it's.

757
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:52.320
A different movie, Like it sounds very heavy drama.

758
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:56.239
If I'm making, if I'm making, well, the last broadcast

759
00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:59.199
sounds like it's a new show for one thing. Yeah,

760
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:01.760
and if you've got something that's on brand that everyone

761
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:06.559
knows that you've been doing for decades, call it what

762
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:09.199
the show's called. What I don't get what this guy

763
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:11.920
what his thought process is? And if you think the

764
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:16.599
last broadcast is lame hee he then says, hey, I

765
00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:19.039
can get a bigger appeal his his thought process. Here

766
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:21.800
you're smiling, so you know the story. But the he

767
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:24.639
thinks he can get a bigger piece of the audience

768
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:27.239
by changing the name. And then he wants to call

769
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:32.679
it Savage Love. What kind of bullshit title is that? Like?

770
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:34.800
Could you imagine if you watch this movie called Savage

771
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:36.079
Love and this is the movie.

772
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.119
I mean, I think it's a clever way to maybe

773
00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:42.599
trick people into getting into the theater and then maybe

774
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:43.639
they would have a good time.

775
00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:47.840
I guess them. If I'm if I buy a ticket

776
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:51.000
for Savage Love and I hadn't seen a trailer, I'm

777
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.800
I'm planning on going. I'm planning on going in and

778
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:57.639
seeing like a fatal attraction type, but like a pseudos

779
00:43:57.639 --> 00:43:59.960
like a like a sexual thriller. You know, I'll look

780
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:04.239
different basic instincts. And if I got this, I got

781
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:07.920
this bluegrass bullshit happening for Savage Love. Oh I'm mad,

782
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.960
I'm so mad. Thankfully. Listen, the studio executives aren't always right.

783
00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.679
Amber We've talked about that in the past, but the

784
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:20.320
studio president outright rejected this and said, you are keeping

785
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:25.519
it called a prairie home companion. That's that's what we're doing.

786
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:28.199
That's what we're doing. Get out of my office.

787
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.119
So like that's kind of Garrison Killer's sense of humor,

788
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:33.760
Like he probably wasn't serious.

789
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.559
Who knows. Let's we're gonna, we're gonna take another break

790
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:39.440
and then we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna share a

791
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:45.039
scene or two. We'll see. Okay, let's talk about the scene.

792
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:51.480
First off, I want to know why you specifically chose

793
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:55.320
the scene that you're about to tell us about and

794
00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:58.880
tell us and tell me tell me first. Is it

795
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.360
because there's a strong pformance, Is it the pivotal moment

796
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.440
of the movie. Is it because of the cinematography, or

797
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:11.960
is it, you know, the rapidly growing fan favorite. It

798
00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:13.119
pissed Amber Lewis off.

799
00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:17.679
Why did you choose your choice for this?

800
00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:22.239
It just about was just why did you choose your scene?

801
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:27.199
I would say it's the performances. It's you know, of

802
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:32.280
course it's an ensemble effort, but they all come together,

803
00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:37.000
like the timing is impeccable. And I mentioned it before,

804
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:44.480
it's the the duct tape commercial okay scene because like

805
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:48.119
the problem with the Guy No War character is Kevin

806
00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:51.480
Klein's doing nothing but site gags and then like one

807
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:54.880
part joke and none of which are funny and it

808
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:59.800
doesn't really fit. But in the duct tape commercial scene,

809
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.079
you've got Garrison Keeler and Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep

810
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.639
on stage and they do during Prahim companion, they do

811
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:10.679
these like fake commercials all the time. None of the

812
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:12.960
products are real. They're all fakes.

813
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:13.719
Oh I didn't know that.

814
00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:18.440
Okay, Yeah, there are no powder powder milk biscuits, there's

815
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:22.199
no rhubarb pie. Like this is all just written for

816
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:26.559
the show. So the duct tape commercial is a gag

817
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.880
to get the sound effects guy to do a bit.

818
00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:35.280
And the bit is that whoever's doing the commercial with Garrison.

819
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:39.000
They just keep throwing random crazy stuff out and the

820
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:41.599
sound effects guy just has to like spur the moment

821
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:42.159
come up with.

822
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:47.360
He has worked there, working him, Yes, and.

823
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.079
So it's one of my favorite gags in the radio

824
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:55.159
show to see, like, what random crazy stuff are they

825
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:56.920
going to make this poor guy try to do a

826
00:46:56.960 --> 00:47:02.559
sound effect for. And also but it's a cohesive story,

827
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:07.039
like they're telling a story and they're seating it with

828
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:10.880
these details of like a chainsaw and you know, dripping

829
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:13.840
water and whatever. And then through the whole thing you've

830
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.960
got this amazing sight gag that doesn't work for radio,

831
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.400
but it works in this moment of Myer Rudolph trying

832
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:23.519
to juggle this huge sheaf of papers and they just

833
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.000
keep falling and it's a castigating nightmare for her.

834
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:31.800
I all right, so here's here's what you just did.

835
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:38.000
You just made me enjoy that scene. Now that I understand,

836
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:39.840
this is why I wanted you to listen to the

837
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.840
radio ship. First, Okay, so I just thought I just thought, Okay,

838
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:45.280
first off, I thought the dude's doing his you know,

839
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.320
because it's a radio show. I thought I thought he's

840
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.280
just doing his you know, I did at the top

841
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.679
of the hour, right, I talked about our favorite black

842
00:47:51.719 --> 00:47:55.239
Key coffee. I didn't realize that it was part of

843
00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:58.039
the act, that she's supposed to fumble it, and that

844
00:47:58.079 --> 00:47:59.960
the audience is supposed to see the stage manager.

845
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.920
And no, that part was not part of the act.

846
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.199
But what Balty Tomlin is doing.

847
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:08.000
Yeah, well, they're just crazy story.

848
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:12.199
Spewing this random story that makes no sense about chimpanzees.

849
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:16.440
And he's got like this what the hell based on him,

850
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:17.679
you know, and he just has.

851
00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:20.639
To keep rolling with whatever they throw at him.

852
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:24.599
All right, I like it. I like it. I chose

853
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:29.320
a scene based on performance as well. Ah, it's the

854
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:33.239
one scene where it's the one scene where I was like,

855
00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:36.880
you know what, I enjoy this moment of this movie

856
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:39.679
because I just wasn't amber. I just wasn't enjoying the movie.

857
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:42.039
But when I got to this moment, I was like,

858
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:46.519
I'm having fun. And I laughed out loud, literally laughed

859
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:49.679
out loud once or twice. Can we talk about it?

860
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:53.000
What is it? I don't know, Okay, tell me, tell me.

861
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:54.360
You know you know me so well.

862
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:58.519
I know it's gotta be Dusty and Lefty doing bad jokes.

863
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:01.360
Can we's got me there?

864
00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:04.920
Can we listen to it just a little bit here? Yeah,

865
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:10.800
hold the plug? You ready for another one? Yeah? Land

866
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:11.079
on it.

867
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.519
Holy went to the neighborhood dancing and won the big

868
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:18.559
door prize was a toilet brush, and he took it

869
00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:21.920
home and the next week one of the guys said, Holy,

870
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:25.559
how's that toilet brush the one you wont from the neighbors?

871
00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:28.800
Holy said, or it works pretty good, but I prefer

872
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:29.800
toilet paper.

873
00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:34.639
Jokes, Lord, I love him ban jokes. Can't get enough of.

874
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:38.519
Ban jokes for me.

875
00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:43.320
Farmer had a champion bullet bread two hundred times a year.

876
00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:47.800
Farmer's wife said, two hundred times. Isn't that wonderful, dear?

877
00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:52.280
Maybe you want to watch him. Maybe he'll show you how.

878
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:55.599
Farmer said, he's a heck of a bull boter what

879
00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:56.000
and all?

880
00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:56.559
What's the same?

881
00:49:56.639 --> 00:49:56.800
Cow?

882
00:49:56.960 --> 00:50:00.840
Come on now, man joked, I love him jokes.

883
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:05.760
Can't get it up bad jokes to me.

884
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:12.159
Okay, so it is. It is Dusty and Lefty singing

885
00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:16.599
bad jokes. Amber it happened, and.

886
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:19.719
The stage manager is like freaking out because he begged

887
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:21.960
them to keep it clean. In the first thing, they're

888
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:23.800
talking about boobs and butts.

889
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:28.280
And Amber great, it's it's a funny song. And then

890
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.119
I like how they're kind of like they're breaking it

891
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:35.119
down into just just tasteless jokes. Yes, so I got it.

892
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:36.480
I've got a couple of them.

893
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:42.000
Here and Prairie Compinion. They will do like every episode

894
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:44.880
is basically the same, it's the same format, it's the

895
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:47.440
same commercials, it's the same everything. But then every now

896
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:51.239
and then they'll do a joke's show and they'll have

897
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:54.320
like Paul Poundstone on or something, and then they do

898
00:50:54.599 --> 00:50:55.719
this bad jokes bit.

899
00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:01.239
Okay, can we agree that they are as as they

900
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:04.840
are offensive? Because I'm I'm I'm watching, I'm watching the

901
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:08.360
I'm watching the moment and I'm like, I'm laughing. I'm like, oh,

902
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.840
I bet Amber laughed at that. And then I'm like

903
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:12.519
then like a second land, I'm like, oh, I bet

904
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:18.360
that pissed her off. No, okay, Okay, I just want

905
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:20.239
to I want to share some of my my favorite

906
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:26.559
ones here. Uh let's see. Uh, and I I know

907
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:28.519
I'm on very thing ice since it's women'.

908
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.039
I was gonna say, choose carefully.

909
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:36.039
Dusty uh says I got another one. Lefty s Finn

910
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.920
said to his his friend, Oh, I think my wife died.

911
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:42.960
His friend said, well, what do you mean you think? Well,

912
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.119
the sex is still the same, but the dishes are

913
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:53.559
stacking up. That's awesome. Sorry, uh, Lefty, you got another one, Dusty, Dusty,

914
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:55.840
actually I do. Did you hear the one about the

915
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.599
Viagras shipment that got stolen? Lefty? Know who they think

916
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:03.639
did it? Dusty? Well, they don't know, but they're on

917
00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:09.639
the lookout for hardened criminals. Oh boy. And then uh,

918
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:14.719
one one more because it's a quick one. Dusty says, Hey, hey, Lefty,

919
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:18.480
what did the elephant say to the naked man? Lefty?

920
00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:22.639
What they say? Dusty? That's cute? But can you really

921
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:30.480
breathe through that thing? Very tasteless, very offensive, but hilarious jokes.

922
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:34.000
These are almost like they're almost like R rated dad jokes. Yeah,

923
00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:37.519
I mean jokes, but yes, yeah.

924
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:41.639
Their entrance to the movie, like they they come in

925
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:46.960
telling a bad choke. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of dirty.

926
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:53.000
I like those guys. Guys, and let's just let's just

927
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:56.199
be let's be up front this. You know, we're I

928
00:52:56.280 --> 00:53:00.440
thought you were hosting. You thought I was hosting. Usually

929
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.960
the host does a little extra work cast. You know fine,

930
00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:07.760
you know, like when we talk about running the numbers, well,

931
00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:12.880
you know, we're we're not ready. We're basically we are.

932
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:17.280
We are right now Maya Rudolph just dumping uh strip

933
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.119
pages and commercials out of the folder in front of

934
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:21.559
the audience.

935
00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:24.840
So listeners know what we are is the sound effects

936
00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:29.800
guy trying to Frans keep up with whatever shenanigans is

937
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:30.679
being thrown at us.

938
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:36.760
Yeah. Well so listeners, if you're wondering the numbers on

939
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:43.639
a companions, nah, listen, Uh, we're not. We're not gonna

940
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:45.000
We're not gonna do it off the car. If we

941
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:46.079
don't know, we don't know it.

942
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:50.760
But I did read it. I just didn't make it. Oh,

943
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:52.559
here we go. The budget was ten million and the

944
00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:54.679
box office was twenty six million.

945
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:56.159
Not good.

946
00:53:56.719 --> 00:53:58.639
I mean it made its money back and a little

947
00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:03.639
bit more. Are you The budget was ten million, okay, listen,

948
00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:06.239
and it made twenty six You.

949
00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:10.159
Know this though. If a movie's budget is ten million,

950
00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:16.159
the studio always matches that for the promotions, so it

951
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:20.920
has to do well. Well, that's every Hollywood studio.

952
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:26.320
No, it was not, you know it Captain America Civil War.

953
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:26.760
It was not.

954
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:29.559
Well it was not. But I'm just I'm just saying

955
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:32.199
like it lost money. That's let's just call it what

956
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:35.840
it is, because a movie usually has to do like

957
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:39.320
triple the budget to like to be in the black,

958
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:41.960
you know, to make a profit. So and that's just look,

959
00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:44.159
I don't I don't agree with it. I think it's stupid.

960
00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:45.039
The rules.

961
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:47.000
I don't make the rules. I just watched the movies.

962
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:53.000
But yeah, I don't know. Let's let's let's just wrap

963
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:53.679
this up here.

964
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:57.400
You're like, getting me out of this movie.

965
00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:58.960
Get me out of this, get me out of the Fitzgerald.

966
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:01.559
I will. I will tell you. It will ease the

967
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:04.679
pain of me putting you through this for you to

968
00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:08.519
know that Nan Lewis loves this movie and she is

969
00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:13.920
going to be so happy when this episode drops. So well,

970
00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:17.559
you made one lady in Los Angeles very very happy.

971
00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:21.360
See one of our one of our favorite listeners, Patreon

972
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.760
supporter Nan Lewis. If I knew that this was like

973
00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:29.320
on on NaN's list, I probably would have behaved myself

974
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:31.360
a little bit more than no.

975
00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:32.960
And she loves you, she doesn't care.

976
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:38.679
Well, let's let's talk about uh, Robert Altman one more time,

977
00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:42.880
little thing we do this season at least, you know,

978
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:49.239
written by, directed by, or starring amber which Robert Altman

979
00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.199
film or probact? Well, I'll just I'll say project, let

980
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:54.039
me do that, Let me do that one time? Okay,

981
00:55:54.920 --> 00:56:02.000
written by, directed by, or starring which under rated project

982
00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:06.440
by Robert Altman? Would you suggest for someone who watches

983
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:08.199
this movie and says, hey, I really like this guy,

984
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:11.280
Robert Altman? What else is? What else she got? And

985
00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:13.840
it's underrated, you know, because like they already know about

986
00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:15.239
the hits.

987
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:18.519
Yeah, but I'm never not going to throw DVDs of

988
00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:22.199
Gospeler Park at people until everyone watches it because it's

989
00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:28.960
absolutely amazing. But another favorite of his and I we

990
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.199
talked about it a little bit on the Player episode

991
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:34.280
is a film called The Company.

992
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:36.360
Do you remember you talking about that one?

993
00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:42.280
Yeah, And it's surprisingly maybe people don't know. It stars

994
00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:47.960
Nev Campbell, which stars it's an ensemble, but she she

995
00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:51.639
is extensively trained in ballet, so she's dancing.

996
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:52.519
I didn't know the film.

997
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:58.480
Yeah, And it's just this little movie about a ballet company.

998
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:01.760
And you know, if you if you've ever had experienced,

999
00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:04.039
you know, in a theater company or a ballet company

1000
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:08.280
or you know, just any kind of collective artistic endeavor

1001
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:12.519
like that. It's very, very real in just the dynamics

1002
00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:15.000
of the people and you know kind of what that

1003
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:18.519
life is like. And so I enjoy that one very much.

1004
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:21.719
All right, Yeah, I remember you mentioning that one. I'm

1005
00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:25.559
gonna I'm gonna throw one at you, directed by Robert

1006
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:30.239
Altman as well as co written. And look, when it

1007
00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:32.280
comes to the guy like Altman, let's just be honest,

1008
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:36.920
it's not like he didn't make big movies nons like.

1009
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:39.440
It's it's hard to pick an underrated project for a

1010
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:42.000
guy like Yes, you know, I don't have to like

1011
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:44.960
him to say that. I still respect the talent. I

1012
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:45.679
still respect the.

1013
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:48.000
Yeah, because there's a lot of like his early stuff

1014
00:57:48.039 --> 00:57:48.599
I haven't seen.

1015
00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:51.400
Yeah, Okay, so that's I want to talk about one

1016
00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:54.599
of them because I had not seen it until very recently,

1017
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:59.639
nineteen seventy one's McCabe and Missus Miller, which he like,

1018
00:57:59.679 --> 00:58:02.639
I said, he directed it and he he co wrote it.

1019
00:58:03.159 --> 00:58:08.440
So he's like, no, because on the one hand, you

1020
00:58:08.440 --> 00:58:10.320
get Julie Christi, but then on the other hand, you

1021
00:58:10.360 --> 00:58:13.760
have to put up with Warren Batty. So okay, sure, all.

1022
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:16.639
Right, Well here's what I'll tell you. I watched it

1023
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:21.719
on Hulu recently after listening to the Cinematic Flashback podcast.

1024
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.920
They did an episode on it and listeners for those

1025
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:29.599
of you that don't know about the Cinematic podcast and

1026
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:31.760
listeners for those of you that don't know about the

1027
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:36.519
Cinematic Flashback podcast. These guys dive into seventies movies and

1028
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:40.960
debate whether or not they still groove or if they

1029
00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:44.880
skip the beat. I can tell you that, even as

1030
00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:48.440
a lover of seventies cinema, they have turned me onto

1031
00:58:48.440 --> 00:58:52.360
several classics. I wasn't even aware of this being one

1032
00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:56.960
of them. So shout out to Chuck and Matt. Their

1033
00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.599
show is awesome if you if you are a fan

1034
00:58:59.639 --> 00:59:03.519
of like the gritty seventies cinema, it is definitely a

1035
00:59:03.559 --> 00:59:05.920
show for you. But I I had never even heard

1036
00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:08.000
of McKay and Missus Miller and when it pulled up,

1037
00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:10.440
you know, I follow them on Spotify, and when it

1038
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:15.360
pulled up, I was like, what's what? What is this movie?

1039
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:17.440
But I'm glad they did the episode because I got

1040
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:21.360
to see got to see the film anyway, it's what

1041
00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:25.800
you call a revisionist Western, meaning it's not done in

1042
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:29.000
the classic sense of good guys and bad guys. Uh,

1043
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:33.480
it's it's simpler, more realistic in tone, and rather than

1044
00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:36.239
being heavy handed with myth and romance, if that makes sense.

1045
00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:38.920
There's no like, you know, you got to tell sundown

1046
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:42.480
partner type of stuff. It's more of like, this is

1047
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:46.000
what the real Old West was like. And you've got

1048
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:50.480
you've got peak. Yeah, well it's not. It's not a town,

1049
00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:53.840
so you've you've got peak. Warren Baty and Julie Christie.

1050
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.840
They're trying to establish a new brothel in this boomtown.

1051
00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:03.239
So you know, basically expect a very deep character study

1052
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:04.880
amid all the gambling and prostitution.

1053
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.360
It's worth watching. Yeah, it sounds like a proto dead

1054
01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:09.119
would kind of thing.

1055
01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:14.000
Yeah, okay, yes, and the cinematography is gorgeous if I could,

1056
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:17.519
I'll tell you that too. But and the music, it's

1057
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:21.519
it's weird because again it's a Western, but you get

1058
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:25.599
you got you get some Leonard Cohen music, so kind

1059
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:27.880
of kind of throws you off. But yeah, check that

1060
01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:32.320
one out. Amber. I am gonna go ahead and give

1061
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:37.920
you the the moment. First to tell these listeners why

1062
01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:41.400
you recommend seeing A Prayer Home Companion. Please take center

1063
01:00:41.440 --> 01:00:42.880
stage and tell them all about it.

1064
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:48.199
I think that if you have never listened to a

1065
01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:51.639
radio show and so you're not entirely sure what we're

1066
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:55.360
talking about, this is a good way to get into

1067
01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:59.719
that and to see, you know, just kind of a

1068
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:04.039
the scenes of how this concert variety show comes together

1069
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:10.840
with great talent, and you know it's fun. It's funny,

1070
01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.280
you'll laugh, and then you'll give the radio show a try.

1071
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:21.440
All right. I can recommend uh the Ham radio episode

1072
01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:27.280
of Frasier. I can recommend Haunted Honeymoon Jean Wilder nineteen

1073
01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:33.320
eighty six, but I cannot, in good conscience recommend this film, or,

1074
01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:36.039
if I'm being fair, most of Altman's catalog. That's not

1075
01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:39.880
to say his films, including A Prairie Home Companion, aren't

1076
01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:45.360
made incredibly well with very talented ensemble casts. He's just

1077
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:46.360
not a director I enjoy.

1078
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:47.920
I'm gonna wear you do.

1079
01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:51.480
We're gonna watch gos for and I know, hold on now, I.

1080
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:54.360
Feel sales will drop from your eyes and you'll fully

1081
01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:54.880
get it.

1082
01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:57.159
Amber I'm sorry to say I feel like I have

1083
01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:58.840
watched my last Robert.

1084
01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:01.239
Also, it's coming, It's gonna happen.

1085
01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:03.760
I'm telling you, listen. If you you can campaign all

1086
01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:05.000
you want for Gosford.

1087
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:09.599
Park, listeners, seriously back me up and make this man

1088
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:10.599
do this episode.

1089
01:02:11.159 --> 01:02:15.360
I think anyone, we got a pretty we've got a

1090
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.960
pretty deep bench here on a film. By now. I

1091
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:20.400
think I think let's let's hear you and and someone

1092
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:23.400
not named Jeff talk about a Robert the film because

1093
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:26.960
I'm I'm oer for two on this guy. Uh And

1094
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:27.639
I just I don't know.

1095
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:30.280
If I got just to get you to watch this movie.

1096
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:33.400
Well, let's do another one. Let's do an episode on Popeye.

1097
01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:34.880
I know I liked that one.

1098
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:37.760
I will I will watch Popeye if you will watch

1099
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:38.519
Gosford Park.

1100
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:41.599
You've seen Popeye. That's not fair, and you love this director.

1101
01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:43.280
That's what are we doing.

1102
01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:46.800
Here, because a lot of people think that Popeye is garbage.

1103
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:48.719
And just because I liked it when I was seven

1104
01:02:48.800 --> 01:02:51.440
doesn't mean that it holds up. I haven't seen it since.

1105
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:55.840
I'm sure. I'm sure it doesn't hold up. I said

1106
01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:57.800
that it's a Popeye fan. I was. I was playing

1107
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:03.079
the Popeye arcade game last year at Retromania with with

1108
01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:06.800
a bunch of bunch of amazing people. But all right,

1109
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:09.480
that's neither here, not letting it go.

1110
01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:11.159
It's gonna happen, all right.

1111
01:03:11.199 --> 01:03:15.840
Well, next time on a film by Amber Lewis, uh

1112
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:21.400
will have a much more agreeable companion at the Prairie

1113
01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:24.800
Home whe her Angela Norris is back. You guys are

1114
01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:27.679
what do you? What are you talking about? And are

1115
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:32.239
you guys doing the others that really creepy Kim movie.

1116
01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:36.000
I'm dragging you guys out of your wheelhouses because Angela

1117
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:39.280
is not a creepy movie kind of person.

1118
01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:41.079
She she's a bit of a fraidy cat.

1119
01:03:41.559 --> 01:03:44.920
Yeah, she's not a fan where I will watch like,

1120
01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:47.320
I won't necessarily like him, but I will watch anything.

1121
01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:48.320
Who's that?

1122
01:03:48.559 --> 01:03:48.719
Is that?

1123
01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:54.920
Who's a Alejandro ale Yeah, guys, he's a visionary I like.

1124
01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:57.719
I look forward to seeing what you guys. What do

1125
01:03:57.719 --> 01:03:59.280
you guys think of that one? I know, well, you

1126
01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:02.800
know you love it, butlet's see what Angela has to say. Yeah, well, listeners,

1127
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:06.719
if you've seen the others, how would you summarize it

1128
01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:11.519
in exactly five words? Head to www dot a film

1129
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:13.800
by podcast dot com to give us your answer, or

1130
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:15.599
you can email us at a film by podcast at

1131
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:19.079
gmail dot com. If we use your five words synopsis

1132
01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:21.960
on the show, we'll shout you out on the episode

1133
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:25.519
and you'll get some a film by swag. Real quick

1134
01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:32.480
side note. Ah, We Angela and I did a movie

1135
01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:35.239
four Patreon. It was an exclusive episode. We went. We

1136
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.599
did a video episode talking about a long game of Spider. Yes,

1137
01:04:39.920 --> 01:04:43.239
and a couple I got a shout out Patreon members

1138
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:48.239
Brad Moore and James Buckley who had some very very

1139
01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:54.199
kick ass five word synopsis options for a long game

1140
01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:57.280
of Spider. So we're gonna, We're gonna.

1141
01:04:59.519 --> 01:05:02.360
I love it, knock it out of the park.

1142
01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:04.159
I think you're doing good. I think you I think

1143
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:06.159
you do good with it. And then in the beginning

1144
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:08.199
I was I was not so much thinking you were

1145
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:14.280
doing good, but then then it just clicked, Well, this

1146
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:18.480
is I mean, you know, this is like any job Amber,

1147
01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:20.760
there's there's always going to be like the review time.

1148
01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:22.360
You know, I got I gotta tell you about your

1149
01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:24.159
I can tell you about your strengths, but I also

1150
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:26.559
have to tell you about your opportunities. And you know,

1151
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:31.239
in this situation, this situation an opportunity has become a strength.

1152
01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:34.639
I think you do good with them now. So listeners,

1153
01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:37.000
please join us on social media. You can find us

1154
01:05:37.039 --> 01:05:41.840
at YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and x. Amber loves interacting with

1155
01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:45.679
all of you, sharing opinions, taking your request for future episodes,

1156
01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:51.800
and debating great movies and great directors for that matter. Amber, listen,

1157
01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:56.599
I think I already said this once, maybe twice, but uh,

1158
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:03.599
loving the Merrill kidman, You and Angela have been doing

1159
01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:07.480
a great job. I haven't torn the studio down yet.

1160
01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:10.079
Thank you for that, and you know.

1161
01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:11.840
It was fun. I'm blocking you guys out.

1162
01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:13.360
Yeah, I think you guys are doing a great job,

1163
01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:17.239
and I know we're gonna end the month with something fun.

1164
01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:18.760
I think we're gonna do like a top ten Meryl

1165
01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:20.599
Streep episode.

1166
01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:24.199
So yeah, that should be some interesting choices

1167
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:27.920
All right, Amber, Well, I will thank you, and to

1168
01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:30.000
all of you listening to the show, following us on

1169
01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:34.440
social media, and subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you.